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Document management polices
- Where to start? Why not just keep everything?
- What is a document and why have a policy?
- Who needs to approve it and what should the policy cover?
- Project management
- Proportionate response
Retention schedules
- Establishing retention periods and schedules
- What should be set out in retention schedules?
- Factors that determine retention periods
- Purposes for which records are kept
- How should the schedules be laid out?
- Planning for distribution to users
- Guidance to retention periods for: accounting and tax records, personnel, health & safety and pension records contracts company secretarial, material information management sales and marketing
Disposal and review procedures
- Making the policy work and review procedures
- Methods for disposing of paper and electronic records
- Sensitivity categories, disposal record and archiving
Electronic data
- BSI code on legal admissibility of electronic information
- Converting paper documents to electronic records
- Regulatory requirements for creating and storing electronic data
- Emails – policies, storage and treatment
Documents as evidence
- Documentary evidence
- The discovery process
- Privilege
Risk assessments and limitation periods should litigation occur
- Record retention for risk assessments and liability limitation
- Criminal and civil actions and an overview of limitation periods
Data protection and other legal issues?
- Record retention for risk assessments and liability limitation
- Criminal and civil actions and an overview of limitation periods
